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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Starbuck</b> <br /><small>Member # 153</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,16,6,39,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 16, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">06:39 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Okay, the accepted function of the transporter is converting matter to energy and back. So:<P>1. What happens if you try to transport energy, eg. an energy being? It's been done, but does anyone have a theoretical mechanism for this?<P>2. What happens if you're beamed up while firing a phaser? And what happens to the beam?<P>3. If (as in "The Most Toys") a weapon can be disarmed in the transporter, and the energy simply dissipated, could the transporter be abused as a way of preventing nasty injuries (disintegration etc.) by beaming someone aboard at the moment of the shot?<P>------------------<BR>WARNING: Storing semtex in the microwave<BR>may be hazardous to your health!<P> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Timo</b> <br /><small>Member # 245</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,16,7,13,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 16, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:13 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Apparently, what happens is this:<P>1) All forms of matter and energy seem to have a "phased" equivalent, and the transporter "phases" them into this form, then squirts them to the destination, and "re-phases" them. It does NOT change people into radio waves or anything.<P>2)If you beam up when firing a phaser, part of the<BR>phaser beam is snatched up with you, while the rest just sort of dissipates when there is no phaser feeding it. We see this effect in TNG "Datalore" among others. This is further proof that phaser beams travel much more slowly than light, BTW.<P>3) I think the reaction time of transporters is too slow for that. We do see how Spock snatches Kirk and McCoy away in STVI, and the Klingons begin firing right through the dissipating forms of our heroes without much effect. But that was just a coincidence in timing, and would not save the characters if the Klingons decided to shoot first and Spock activated the transporter only in response to this.<P>Timo Saloniemi <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Baloo</b> <br /><small>Member # 5</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,16,10,4,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 16, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">10:04 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> As far as beaming energy, it ought to be easier than matter.<P>According to an article I read a few months ago in Discover Magazine, Scientists have already successfully "beamed" photons with a primitive transporter device. The big problem will be learning how to dematerialize matter, then reassemble it at a desired location.<P>--Baloo<P>------------------<BR>It is less important that you agree with me than it is for you to to understand what I'm saying.<P><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm</A><P> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Krenim</b> <br /><small>Member # 22</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,16,10,9,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 16, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">10:09 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> And there's that little ol' thing called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to contend with as well... <IMG SRC="http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif"><P>------------------<BR>"Stop right there! I have here the only working phaser ever built! It was fired only once: to keep William Shatner from making another album."<P>- The Collector, "Treehouse of Horror X," <I>The Simpsons</I>.<BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Nim</b> <br /><small>Member # 205</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,16,12,31,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 16, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:31 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Ahh the Heisenberg issue? How does it work, again?<BR>-It works just fine!!! <IMG SRC="http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif"><P>------------------<BR>-You're crazy!!!<BR>-I thought I was pisces!<BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Baloo</b> <br /><small>Member # 5</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,16,13,39,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 16, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:39 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Thanks for reminding me:<P><center> <IMG SRC="http://www.goshen.edu/~calvinfs/humor/notice.gif"> <BR>Because of the "Uncertainty Principle," It Is<BR>impossible for the Consumer to Find Out at<BR>the Same Time Both Precisely Where This<BR>Product Is and How Fast It Is Moving.<P><IMG SRC="http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/Grin.gif"></CENTER><P>(I located the above warning <a href="http://www.goshen.edu/~calvinfs/humor/physwarn.htm" target=_blank><B><I>HERE</I></B></A>)<P>------------------<BR>It is less important that you agree with me than it is for you to to understand what I'm saying.<P><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm</A><P> <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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